I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it. Labor is the genius that changes the world from ugliness to beauty, and the great curse… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter in his line as in the other departments of art. — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like. — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
I have no secret but hard work. This is a secret that many never learn, and they don't succeed because they don't learn it.… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
I hate married men. They never make any sacrifices to the arts, but are always thinking of their duties to their wives and families… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
To select, combine and concentrate that which is beautiful in nature and admirable in art is as much the business of the landscape painter… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
